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Thursday, April 21, 2016

Vegetable Pot Pies

These rich and elegant individual pot pies feature tender, flavourful asparagus and are crowned with a fluffy potato topping in lieu of pastry. Trim or snap off the fibrous ends of the asparagus to make sure the tenderest pieces end up in the pies. Serve with a simple green salad.

To save time, cut the chicken into pieces while you wait for the pan to heat. Serve over long-grain white rice. Yield 4 servings (se...

Processed Foods

So we were told that some of our processed foods are as good for us as smoking is. I wonder what they put in those wieners that are ground up so fine. You can't see what is in those. You don't now what they put in them. They are spiced up nicely so they taste good. I had a relative when he first came to Canada, This was in the 1960's. He was working in a small meat store. He said, he won't eat the finely ground wieners that they made there because he seen what they put in them. And that is all he would say about it.

The Missing Tampons

I'm the only female in a house full of guys.Four sons and a husband. Toilet seat is never down...etc.I'm the only one who would be using Female products.....correct?A peculiar thing was happening at my house.Tampons were disappearing!
A few months ago I went to my cupboard to get out a tampon, and there was only one left.I could have sworn I had just bought a box the month before.So, I go back to the store, buy a new box and forget about it.The next month I go back to the cupboard.....and again....there is only one tampon left again.What's going on here? Gremlins?I go to the store and buy another box, and forget about it.
I decided to clean out my two youngest sons closet and at the bottom of their closet are the wrappers, applicators and the tampons themselves.I am starting to freak! What are they doing with them?
I get a hold of myself and tell myself that I am an adult and can handle this, despite the bizarre thoughts running through my mind. I'm thinking,"Do I have enough money saved up in the bank for major therapy?"
I go to the top of the stairs and yell for my two youngest sons to "come here!" They march up the stairs and find me in their room staring into the bottom of their closet.I said "What are you doing with those? Those are mine!"
My 12 year old looks like a deer caught in the headlights and is silent.My 10 year old looks at me all innocent and says."Well, Mom, we were playing with our G.I. Joes and stuff... and those make really good scud missiles... What do you use them for?"
To which I replied:"Never Mind! Go Play!"

Selecting Melons

When purchasing fresh melons, it's key to find those that are perfectly ripe. Choose melons that feel heavy for their size, and avoid any that appear shriveled or have soft spots. When ripe, cantaloupe and honeydew should give off a sweet aroma, and will yield slightly when pressed at the blossom end. Watermelon should have a smooth, waxy surface and a creamy-colored underside. If the underside is white or greenish, the watermelon is not ripe.

Home-Made Sauerkraut

about 25 pounds of cabbage, a cup of salt

shredding your cabbage into fine cuttings

Pack about two inches of finely cut cabbage into your crock or container.

Add 1 Tablespoon of salt spread over the top

Repeat this process until cabbage is about 2 inches from the top of the crock.

Watch for any mold and remove it as it forms. Some call this a ‘bloom’..it is simply air getting to the top of the brine/kraut.

Allow 4 weeks or so to process.

Caesar Salad

Use the same Ranch-Style Dressing Mix, that you use in the Pasta Salad, and make your own Caesar Salad. Buy simulated bacon bits. In your mayonnaise put in grated cheese and the Ranch-Style Dressing Mix. Add your lettuce and you have Caesar Salad.

Cookies

If refrigerator cookie dough seems to soft to form into cylinders, don't be
tempted to add more flour to stiffen it. Instead, stick the bowl of dough
in the freezer about an hour. You'll find dough easier to handle.

Cookies that have become hard can be softened if you store them for a day or
so in a closed container with half an apple.

Dip cookie cutters in either confectioners' sugar or warm water, and dough
won't stick to it.

Use a wet knife to cut refrigerator cookie dough into slices, and they'll
cut cleanly, without ragged edges.

Maple Milk

Give your glass of milk a different flavor. To each glass of milk add a tsp of maple syrup.

Making Coffee from Feed Barley

If you are looking for a cheap alternative to coffee. You can roast feed barley, in a can. Make yourself a scour and over an open fire keep turning the can with the feed barley in it, until the barley is dark. The can has to be completely closed in, because you are dry roasting the feed barley. Then put it in a coffee grinder. Grind it fine, and you have coffee.

Mushrooms

Mushrooms can be grown in chicken manure. But the chicken manure has to be old. Siting there for years, I suppose before you can put any mushrooms in it. Chicken manure has a lot of nitrogen in it. So you have to be careful when you use it in the garden. Don't put to much in there.

Pasta Salad

When you make pasta salad. Mix some of the following together. I took the salt out of the recipe.

I put hard boiled eggs and kielbasa in my pasta salad, and some of the following

Honig Brat Mandeln (Honey Roasted Almonds)

2 c. whole almonds, skin on
1/4 c. sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tbsp. honey
2 tbsp. water
2 tsp. almond or vegetable oil
Spread the almonds in a single layer in a shallow ungreased baking pan and place in cold oven. Bake at 350 F, stirring occasionally, until the internal color of the nuts is tan to light brown, 12 to 15 minutes. (The nuts will continue roast a little more after they are removed from the oven.) Set the roasted almonds aside. Thoroughly mix the sugar and salt. Stir together the honey, water and oil in a medium-size saucepan and bring to a boil over medium heat. Stir in the roasted almonds and continue to cook and stir until all of the liquid has been absorbed by the nuts, about 5 minutes. Immediately tranfer the almonds to a medium-size bowl into which some sugar mixture has been sprinkled. Sprinkle the remaining sugar mixture over the almonds and toss until they are evenly coated. Spread the almonds out on wax paper. When cool, store at room temperature in a tightly covered container or plastic bag for up to two weeks.
Makes 2 cups.

Lemon Cake

When baking lemon cake, I use lemon peel from a fresh lemon.

I also instead of using just flour. I use about half cornstarch and half cornstarch. Use a little more flour than cornstarch, so the cake doesn't turn out to dry.

You can do the same thing when making cookies. Use almost half flour and half constarch. Using a more flour than cornstarch.

OUR BACON

We have raised pigs on our small farm for years. Have made our own bacon. But now that we aren't raising pigs anymore and buying the bacon from the grocery store. I have noticed that when I fry the store bought bacon, it takes longer for the fat to fry out of the bacon. Were as our homemade bacon the fat fry out a lot quicker.

I think what ever is being done with the bacon can't be good. Why does the extra fat have to stay in the bacon longer? What are they doing with our food?

When making Mayonnaise

When making mayonnaise. Leave the egg yolk standing uncovered for about an hour. So it will dry out on the top, before you make the mayonnaise.

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Olive Oil

I had bought olive oil, that was on sale. I then one day decided to make mayonnaise. I had to throw the mayonnaise out, because the mayonnaise tasted bad. It was because of the olive oil. Olive oil should have an expiry date on it. And that is why that oil was on sale they wanted to get rid of it. Have you ever noticed, that unsalted margarine, is not made with olive oil.

How Ottawa is Taking Care of our Farmers

I couldn't believe my ears the bumper grain crop in Western Canada is still sitting in the grain bins. It hasn't gone to market yet. Does anyone now it is March. "Hello", spring is just around the corner, soon the farmers will be thinking about planting a new crop. What have our politician in Ottawa been doing since the fall. They sure haven't been awake. Those chairs they sit in must be to comfortable. Cut their pay in half. The money is going to the grain farmers.

Something from the Past

I am listening with real interest, about our Prime Minister, Steven Harpers reaction. About what is going on the Upper House (in the Senate). The suspension of three Senators. This then takes me back to 1988 when Flora McDonald lost her seat in Kingston and the Islands in Ontario to a Liberal, Peter Andrew Steward Milliken. Now to why Flora McDonald lost her seat. A United Church Ministers home phone was being tapped. He went to his federal member of parliament in Ottawa. Which was the Government at the time. Flora McDonald didn't do anything to help the church minister. By the time the next election came up in 1988, Flora McDonald list her seat to a Liberal. The next federal government was still a Progressive Conservative, but this time, with Brian Mulroney. But after that election in 1988 when Flora McDonald lost her seat. The Progressive Conservative Government suddenly past anti phone tapped legislation. But then in 1993 the liberals were governing. How many years did it take before we had another Conservative Government?

Wednesday November 11, 2015

For those that don't appreciate what our veterans went throw and what our existing soldiers are heading into. Here is something for you to think about. My father was taken from home, at age 17, in Poland during the Second World War. German soldiers picked him up by gun point and put him with other captured men to an old wine cellar that had water in it. There was a dry place to lay down that was about two inches above the water level. Once a day they were let out to go to the bath room. The facilities were a log, and that is what you used. If you were to weak, you were shot and you body pushed in the hole.

Tuesday April 21, 2015

The Ontario Government doesn't have any money for the school teachers. They are probably going to be on the picket lin on Monday, instead of in the Class room. That same government also isn't going to have any money to fix Highway 537 flooding, were Junkgin Creak flows over and closes the highway, between Wanup and Wahnapitae. But that government is going to have money for Southern Ontario, specifically something for Toronto.

Wed. February 25, 2015

If you don't have any money left at the end of the month for your mortgage payment. Take a look at that $200 cell phone bill. The one were you are socializing on facebook.Two hundred dollars for socializing is a bit much. If you don't want to eat for a week in the month, then you have to socialize

Mon. July 21, 2014

When the fruit such as peaches and nectarines are brought to the grocery store when you pick one up, they are hard like a rock. When you buy them thinking they will ripen, instead they start to rot. I think if someone had a brain wave they would wait until the fruit is riper before taking it off the tree. The farmer might be luck and sell more fruit, because that fruit that is to hard, you can't do anything with it. That fruit goes right to the compost pile.

Wed. July 17, 2014

Timmins, Ontario is expanding their farmers market. They want to expand to another street next year. They are supporting local farmers. In Sudbury Ontario, we are decreasing the hours for the farmers market. In a few years they could be pushed right out of the city. It looks like the City of Greater Sudbury council doesn't support a farmers market like they do in Timmins. In Sudbury they had a building and are now in front the old rail way station.

Thursday May 22, 2014

It makes you wonder what they do with the cheese we buy in the grocery store. I had bought some cheddar cheese, "Old Cheddar". I don't remember when I had bought it, but it had a best before date of August on it. What is today, May 22. August is in another three month. How much do you want to bet that that cheese was repackaged with another best before date and then put on sale so it sells.

Sunday March 9, 2014

If our business leaders ran their business's the way our Federal Government runs the country, we would be bankrupt.

Saturday March 8, 2014

When I was watching on the News and seen a lot of the grain the farmers had in Western Canada still sitting outside on a big pill because the bins are all full. It makes be wonder, how long has the government known that we were going to have a bumper crop. They know back in about July last year, and didn't do anything about it. Instead they waited until now. "Oh, the bins are full there will be a new crop coming. We have to do something." A government that is on the ball would have do something back in July last year, right away to get the grain moving. But we have pills of grain sitting outside that is going to rot.

Wed. March 5, 2014

The mistake for drivers licenses out there, for people that don't exist, I think this will somehow come out of the existing legal drivers. We are just going to be charged more to renew our licenses and new plates on our vehicles, until the money is payed off. The money has to come from somewhere.

For Friday February 28, 2014

The thing with the "Ring of Fire" development in Ontario, which when done, will create a lot of jobs. And then there is the latest idea of the Liberal government, to make eating out more expensive, because the menus will now have to include the nutritional values of the food. What good are nutritional values on restaurant meals, if we in Northern Ontario won't be able to use them anyway. Southern Ontario starts on the other side of North Bay.

Tuesday October 22, 2013

Some home builders don't deserve to have anyone working for them. They now when it is cold that the houses have to have heat in them so the paint dry. Instead it freezes on the walls. The base board warps. There isn't enough electrical plugs for the workers to do their job. They have to run hundreds of feet of extension cords from one end of the building to the other in order to do some work. If you want lights you have to bring that with you. And about the stairs into the front entrance They aren't there. The builder doesn't care how you get into the house.

It's now wonder that no one wants to get into the trades. This is just an example how the workers are treated like dirt.

Friday June 6. 2013

I wonder how many women will run after a man to get what they want. I wouldn't run after a man. The men are the ones to do the running. It could later come back to haunt you. "I didn't want you, you were always after me". I was told a decent girl, doesn't girl, doesn't run after a man, and how do you know he isn't married? Or what if there are two identical twins. Which one are you going after? You go ahead and get in the middle. And I suppose, you think there won't be any consequences for you later.

Tuesday March 12, 2013

It really surprises me that some couples when their marriage is in trouble. The mother takes her daughter and goes out of her way to show were her father is going. But the problem is that the father never goes there.

She is then caught in the act what she is doing.

There is just one place the father could have picked this up so fast. So she and, then later a relative, then over years, made a lot of trouble there.

That relative was living on the same road. She had a son, and her sons girl friend living in the same trailer with her. So when she wasn't watching, there was someone else there.

I think this is called STOCKING.

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

It's amazing how things work in politics. A long time federal government member, in a riding, wouldn't do anything about the phone taping of a church minister. That federal politician lost her seat in the next federal election in 1988. Then the next party the liberals,put a new law. How many years has it been possible to tap a phone? And the next question is. Why did it take so long? Is this just something that was over looked? I think maybe the Liberals or the P.C.'s weren't going to do anything. That they were put between a rock and a hard place. They had no choice.

Tuesday March 19, 2013

You've moved on you and your old boy friend is history. Suddenly one day, you get a phone call from him again. He is moving and wants to get rid of his cat and dog. You have a big place so he wants to bring them to you.

You in the mean time have an iron in the fire so to speak. The guy you want still has a spouse, and you don't know how things stand.

Now lets go back to the old boy friend that wants to bring you a cat and dog. Lets say the spouses in this situation have gotten in contact with each other. And this was just a set up. So the old boyfriend comes to you. Then the new guy notices that his still spouse isn't watching him so much. So he has an chance to come and see you.

Now the spouses will get together and set you up for braking up their marriages.

This also works if there is a third party involved that is watching and isn't being paid. That person could later get sued.

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Do you think that an outside person getting involved in someone's divorce could get sued later?

Wednesday April 24, 2013

In Ontario, someone had an idea to bring back Elk in this province. In the meantime the farmers are fighting with the Elk, so they can keep their hay for the cattle. Now lets think about this. Is there something wrong with this picture.

Friday April 5, 2013

I have been getting phone calls were, after you say "Hello", they either don't say anything, or there is a recording were they want to sell you something. If I lay the receiver down and go back later, I don't hear anything. So I think that I am being put on hold. They are watching how long it takes before I hang up the phone. Now if this is the same person, in my book this is also stocking.

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Our premier in Ontario thinks we need new Casinos near the border with the U.S. When our food supply diminishes in 30 years, we are going to gambling. Our premier had better put a lock on her fridge, because one morning when she wakes it will be empty.

Tuesday May 7, 2013

The water level in Georgian Bay are down.
The docks in Manitoulin Island needs fixing so the fairy can dock. These docks belong to the federal government. The provincial government is willing to put up the money to get to docks fixed so the fairy can dock there again. What's wrong with those fed's. There are business and jobs depending on that fairy. I suppose the feds don't care if they lose a little tax money. That has to be it, otherwise they would have fixed it last fall. And there probably isn't a Conservative MP in that riding. There are still enough taxpayers to pick up the shortfall. The government isn't for real man.

May 12, 2013

A student was doing a what they were calling an art demonstration. He was slattering a chicken in the lunch room in a High School. He was showing the other students how to kill live chicken by chopping the head off with an ax, and then proceeding to taking the guts out.

There were some students that didn't like to see this in the lunch room were they were eating. What's wrong with a good demonstration, of were their food comes from. Maybe there will be some students in lunch room that actually learned something from that demonstration.

May 21, 2013

The Federal Government is off the hook at Georgian Bay, the water level has gone up so the fairy can dock again. Isn't it nice, now you don't have to do anything. Until next time, the water goes down in Georgian Bay. Why do it now if you can put it off until later.

Sunday June 2, 2013

Here is to who ever was putting an old piece of wood with a rusty nail in it, in a place were I would step on it. I put the piece of wood on the side and when I came back later the piece of wood was gone. Then a few days later that same piece of wood was put somewhere again so i would step on it.

And then there is that person that was taking two meat chickens after they were big enough to slotter. I am on to you too. I was counting the chickens, I now when there are some missing.

And now there are raccoons going in at the closure outside and killing meat chickens. That is also going to end this year.